Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   In the year 1968 dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70  

Jun 05   Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68 on this day in history.  

Jun 05   Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day in the year 1968.  

Jun 05   US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles on this day in history.  

Jun 06   In the year 1968 franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies  

Jun 06   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.  

Jun 07   In the year 1968 dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60  

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination on this day in history.  

Jun 08   On this day in history gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"  

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport on this day in history.  

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted in the year 1968.  

Jun 08   In the year 1968 rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"  

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1968.  

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1968.  

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 in the year 1968.  

Jun 15   John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral on this day in history.  

Jun 15   Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 in the year 1968.  

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing in the year 1968.  

Jun 19   On this day in history 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign  

Jun 20   Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds on this day in history.  

Jun 21   In the year 1968 ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91  

Jun 21   Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns on this day in history.  

Jun 24   In the year 1968 canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner  

Jun 24   On this day in history deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion  

Jun 24   In the year 1968 joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title  

Jun 24   Resurrection City closed in the year 1968.  

Jun 25   In the year 1968 tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43  

Jun 26   On this day in history iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US  

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague in the year 1968.  

Jun 27   On this day in history norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies  

Jun 28   On this day in history daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers  

Jun 29   Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Jun 30   In the year 1968 gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections  

Jun 30   In the year 1968 john Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies  

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.